Information, contacts and swimmers' stories about swimming in the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu, the main island of Japan, and Hokkaido, an 18K strait of fast-moving currents and abundant marine life and one of the Oceans Seven channels

July 2012: he crossed the English Channel from England to France in 16 hours 29 minutes.
April 2015: he crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco in 4 hours 1 minute.
November 2015: he crossed the Catalina Channel from Santa Catalina Island to the Southern California mainland in 11 hours 53 minutes.
July 2016: he crossed the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland in 12 hours 22 minutes.
February 2017: he crossed the Molokai Channel from Molokai to Oahu in 17 hours 1 minute.
March 2017: he crossed the Cook Strait in a tandem swim with Steve Walker, finishing in 12 hours 44 minutes.
October 2017: he attempted a crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in a tandem swim with Steve Walker in the latest attempt on record.
June 2018: he crossed the Tsugaru Channel from Honshu to Hokkaido in Japan in 11 hours 7 minutes.